BUSINESS

Harte will report directly to Barclays CEO Antony Jenkins

Weir previously commissioned an independent report into how Scottish independence would affect businesses

Pfizer's attempt to acquire UK's AstraZeneca has fuelled concerns about tax avoidance strategies of large firms.

Pay-TV firm BSkyB added 764,000 new customers in nine months to end of March.

Dani Alves' banana eating incident was a marketing plan created with Neymar and a Brazilian company.

Rolls-Royce's stock price opened 2% down on flat profits for 2014

FatFace, the clothing retailer, will float shares onto the London Stock Exchange in May.

Finance Director George Culmer confirms plans on a conference call

Rupert Soames, grandson of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, becomes CEO today

GM bailout cost US taxpayers about $1bn more than estimated.

Lloyds unveiled a 22% jump in first-quarter pre-tax profit

HMRC revealed that those paying the 40p and 45p rate will pay 67% of the total tax bill.

Lloyds has already bolstered its balance sheet by selling off a range of assets

Russian president preparing for a trying month as Ukraine elections loom at end of May

93,000 records stolen every hour as data thefts soar by 200% in first three months of 2014

Silk Road replacement DarkMarket renamed OpenBazaar to avoid connection to drugs trafficking

50% more subscribers to the London Underground WiFi network skyrocket amid tube strikes on 29 April.

Rouble depreciation led to falling income and profits in the first quarter.

International Monetary Fund Slashes Russia's growth forecast to 0.2% for 2014.

Report suggests Lazard snapped up Royal Mail shares after advising government on controversial offer price.

Financial experts caught on the hop by extent of fall on back of bad weather and falling overseas demand

But Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan warns that it is "absolutely crucial" that the country sticks to fiscal targets.

Cairo owes foreign oil companies billions of dollars as economy struggles to recover from political turmoil

Brian Callahan has pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme worth almost $100m

Airbnb, Xiaomi and Dropbox are at top of the list, each worth around $10bn.

The ONS says around 1.4 million UK workers were on zero-hours contracts in early 2014

George Osborne's bid to halt the FTT has been scuppered, but the tax is neither as good or bad as either side would have you believe.

Government reveals data from controversial mortgage scheme Help to Buy.

Beijing-based CASS believes China growth will be powered by investment.